Dragging Old Baggage into the New Season

I had a quick vision of a person happily dragging his negative baggage from one season into the next whistling as he went.

Are you carrying your old baggage into the new season? We often do, with the expectation of different results. We often we make resolutions or promises to do better the next season with the expectation that we are not going to make the same mistakes we made before. However, we never consider that we have dragged our old baggage and all the negative “stuff” that we haven’t overcome into the new. We drag these bad habits into the next season all the while stating that God is going to perform something great in the New Year.

It has been said that if we want something different we have to do what we have never done before. We want wonderful relationships but we drag the same old negative folks with us into the next place. We hold on to these ungodly relationships because we are comfortable with them. So many of us have desired to lose weight or to get healthy but we bring the old baggage of bad or comfort foods with us into the next season desiring to do better. How many times have we promised to pray and study more but we continue to subscribe to movie clubs, play with wii or other games, all the time allowing these things to consume all of our time. We love to bring those folks who we refuse to forgive into the next all the while asking God to bless us.

Consider this…forgive everyone who has ever hurt you. Simply forgive them and ask God to bless them. You may need to block some phone numbers or not answer your phone or door when it comes to some people. Be too busy to spend time with people who are not good for you; they will soon move on. But make sure you pray for them that their eyes will be open to the things of God but you move on. You can’t take these people into the next move of God in your life. Get a few friends to exercise with you. If you live quite a distance from a friend, then make sure that you call one another at the same time of day and commit to exercising at the same time. But for goodness sakes, get moving into better health. Find healthier ways to eat and encourage one another to eat better. Get a prayer partner and friends who love to read and select chapters in the Word to study and discuss together. Pray without ceasing and make time for God in your daily life. Your life will change for the better. You will have a fresh and renew energy for the things of God and a love of life.

Leave old baggage behind not looking back to the past but living in the “now” and desire with great expectation to live in the glory realm. Seek peace and get wisdom. Rid your life of garbage and move into the blessed realm. With both hands raised in praise to God, you can’t carry old baggage. We are moving into a season of great power and authority in the spirit realm if we are walking in holiness. We need a double dose of the Holy Ghost to move into the miracle realm. Propel forward in God!